PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Richard Dawkins, Prosocial Behavior, Reciprocal Altruism
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Prosocial behavior: no one can sincerely help another without helping themselves, we help others because we benefit for it, most of psychology recognizes this in prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior: behavior you engage in that makes a positive social impact, anything that you are doing that helps someone else. Evolutionary perspective: helping someone can just ourselves so why for we do it. I am going to specifically help someone with copies of our genes: my fitness is included in them as a vessel. i(cid:374)(cid:272)lusi(cid:448)e fit(cid:374)ess, so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e else"s sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)i(cid:374)g helps (cid:455)our o(cid:449)(cid:374) ge(cid:374)es. In everyday situations, it does not really benefit us to think about kinship. They took all the rankings and creating a likelihood of helping index. Helping as a function of age and sex of target. Reciprocation: the idea that if someone does something prosocial for you, you should return the favor. We call this the reciprocal altruism perspective; this was said by trivers.
